• Anon (unregistered) in reply to Captain Oblivious
    Captain Oblivious:
    SilentRunner:
    Does "aweful" mean full of awe? Or did you mean awful?

    Sometimes I can spend hours reading a sentence and never get any thing worthwhile done.

    You do realize that "awful" is a shortening of "aweful", and does in fact mean "awe inspiring", yes? Note that some things can be awe-inspiringly good, and others can be awe-inspiringly bad.

    Terrific primarily means "terrifying", by the way.

    Who are you to say what words mean?

  • Raptor85 (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    Um, the mug isn't coming from microsoft. Unless they bought thedailywtf, which I think we would have heard about. ;-)
    They haven't bought the daily wtf....they're just a major contributor :)
  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Captain Oblivious:
    SilentRunner:
    Does "aweful" mean full of awe? Or did you mean awful?

    Sometimes I can spend hours reading a sentence and never get any thing worthwhile done.

    You do realize that "awful" is a shortening of "aweful", and does in fact mean "awe inspiring", yes? Note that some things can be awe-inspiringly good, and others can be awe-inspiringly bad.

    Terrific primarily means "terrifying", by the way.

    Who are you to say what words mean?

    Someone who can read. There's a nice book called "the dictionary" you might want to look at.

  • some dude (unregistered) in reply to Captain Oblivious
    Captain Oblivious:
    Anon:
    Captain Oblivious:
    SilentRunner:
    Does "aweful" mean full of awe? Or did you mean awful?

    Sometimes I can spend hours reading a sentence and never get any thing worthwhile done.

    You do realize that "awful" is a shortening of "aweful", and does in fact mean "awe inspiring", yes? Note that some things can be awe-inspiringly good, and others can be awe-inspiringly bad.

    Terrific primarily means "terrifying", by the way.

    Who are you to say what words mean?

    Someone who can read. There's a nice book called "the dictionary" you might want to look at.

    Like this one? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aweful Or maybe: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aweful

    Yeah.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Captain Oblivious
    Captain Oblivious:
    Anon:
    Captain Oblivious:
    SilentRunner:
    Does "aweful" mean full of awe? Or did you mean awful?

    Sometimes I can spend hours reading a sentence and never get any thing worthwhile done.

    You do realize that "awful" is a shortening of "aweful", and does in fact mean "awe inspiring", yes? Note that some things can be awe-inspiringly good, and others can be awe-inspiringly bad.

    Terrific primarily means "terrifying", by the way.

    Who are you to say what words mean?

    Someone who can read. There's a nice book called "the dictionary" you might want to look at.

    Someone who can read - by what you consider to be the definition of the words.

    And The Dictionary?!? Is that any different than saying something is true because it's in The Bible? Or because an authoritative source said so?

  • anonymouser (unregistered) in reply to Meatloaf
    Meatloaf:
    [image]

    Two out of three ain't bad.

    How do you know the two are right? It might only be one of three.

  • (cs) in reply to anonymouser
    anonymouser:
    Meatloaf:
    [image]

    Two out of three ain't bad.

    How do you know the two are right? It might only be one of three.

    For that matter, how do we know the purpose of the RPC Services isn't to use the Underlying Framework to strip the gears of the DesktopApp? Maybe the diagram is completely accurate!

  • no u (unregistered) in reply to boog h8r
    boog h8r:
    boog:
    Malenfant:
    bertram:
    eVil:
    Does Nagesh...
    You know, I'm starting to wonder if he's in some way associated with the site...
    As it's an unregistered Nagesh, what leads you to believe it is always the same person?
    I can't speak for bertram, but what leads me to believe it's always the same person is purely personal preference. In fact, I prefer to believe that all unregistered trolls on this site are actually just one sad little pinhead sitting in his parents' basement entertaining himself with sockpuppets. And why shouldn't I? It's hilarious and makes me feel superior.

    What? Most of you are thinking it too.

    No, sorry boog, that would be you.

    he's not far from the truth.. I am probably half of the trolls here.

  • Bnon (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    And The Dictionary?!? Is that any different than saying something is true because it's in The Bible? Or because an authoritative source said so?

    Who the F is this ? Jared Loughner ?

  • Athiest (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Captain Oblivious:
    Anon:
    Captain Oblivious:
    SilentRunner:
    Does "aweful" mean full of awe? Or did you mean awful?

    Sometimes I can spend hours reading a sentence and never get any thing worthwhile done.

    You do realize that "awful" is a shortening of "aweful", and does in fact mean "awe inspiring", yes? Note that some things can be awe-inspiringly good, and others can be awe-inspiringly bad.

    Terrific primarily means "terrifying", by the way.

    Who are you to say what words mean?

    Someone who can read. There's a nice book called "the dictionary" you might want to look at.

    Someone who can read - by what you consider to be the definition of the words.

    And The Dictionary?!? Is that any different than saying something is true because it's in The Bible? Or because an authoritative source said so?

    I'm a god damn hypocrite. shoots himself

  • Pyrexkidd (unregistered) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    * You think that gear diagram is bad, there was a diagram released by the US government a while back (might have even been featured on this site?) with three fully interlocked gears that were supposed to represent different branches or groups within government. (i.e. each gear meshed with both of the others.) The winner? Gears in this configuration would be completely locked and incapable of movement.

    Thus representing the permanently inhibited movement of the U.S Government. I fail to see the WTF.

  • (cs)

    Now that I know how to avoid copyright problems, I'm gonna make my own blocks to sell! Let's see ...

    Aplle Buttrfley Chocloate Dinnre Ephelant Floewr ...

  • (cs) in reply to Zolcos
    Zolcos:
    - The email from Microsoft to my Windows Live (hotmail) email went straight to the spam folder.

    I know, right? I've had that about 3 times in the last 6 months. If you add ANY MS service/product to your Live account it usually ends up in the spam box.

    And yet have you ever noticed that no matter how many times you tag the MS advertising junk as spam, it always lands in the inbox?

  • Olivier (unregistered)

    If Canada becomes another puppet country of the US, will you send me a mug anyways?

    CAPTCHA: Validus - The system agrees this is a valid idea.

  • ItsLogic (unregistered) in reply to Meatloaf
    Meatloaf:
    [image]

    Two out of three ain't bad.

    You know it's impossible to get 0/3 or 1/3 right....

  • Herby (unregistered)

    I saw that "signature" entry and wondered: I'm left handed. I sign things with a pen with my ("correct" as my also left handed sister says) left hand. Now when I'm at a computer the mouse arrow points up and to the left, and when I started using one I used it as every one else did, with my right hand. Combine the two, and I can't mouse with my left hand, and I can't sign my name with my right hand. It just DOESN'T work. So, I really can't do what they ask for.

    Side note: on early Mac's (system 6 stuff as I recall) there was an init that made the mouse pointer point up and to the right. It really did a mind f*** with me and I couldn't for the life of me work the mouse properly. Oh, well!

    Someone mentioned "WWVB". FYI, this is a nice radio station that transmits at 60 kHz (yes you heard me 60 kHz) a nice time signal. It is what the "auto setting" (falsely called "atomic clocks") use to set/tell time. Once they are set, they are VERY accurate. If you have one, and work on eBay, it will tell you accurate "eBay time" down to the second (set it to pacific time) to allow you to snipe (manually) with great success.

  • (cs) in reply to tin
    tin:
    And yet have you ever noticed that no matter how many times you tag the MS advertising junk as spam, it always lands in the inbox?
    You’re not trying hard enough. What you have to do is create a filter for incoming messages that moves them to the Junk folder (or straight into Deleted, if you’re so inclined).
  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Now when I'm at a computer the mouse arrow points up and to the left, and when I started using one I used it as every one else did, with my right hand.

    Ditto, and nice to see someone else recognizes the role of the cursor orientation in this. (I almost never see that mentioned in discussions of this topic.)

    That said, I'd bet 99.9% of all people are incapable of replicating their natural signature with a mouse. I mean, WTF????

  • grumpy (unregistered)

    "Open to any resident of the United States". Nice. The interwebs are truly just for 'merkins. The rest of us can go jump in a lake.

  • (cs) in reply to Pyrexkidd
    Pyrexkidd:
    GalacticCowboy:
    * You think that gear diagram is bad, there was a diagram released by the US government a while back (might have even been featured on this site?) with three fully interlocked gears that were supposed to represent different branches or groups within government. (i.e. each gear meshed with both of the others.) The winner? Gears in this configuration would be completely locked and incapable of movement.

    Thus representing the permanently inhibited movement of the U.S Government. I fail to see the WTF.

    You know it. I know it. It's just rare to see the government admit it.

  • ReplyToZolcos (unregistered) in reply to Zolcos

    The reason the email went straight to spam: The PTR (reverse DNS) record is missing, and there was an SPF softfail. The IP was 74.50.106.245 for me, if anyone cares.

  • David Wright (unregistered)

    I doubt there IS a Shirley; it's just a made up name to look more friendly than Service@wherever.

    Where I used to work, the Product Manager's name was on all the standard letters sent out by Customer Care. When he left, they had to change them all for a new name. All under Configuration Control, so it was a bit of a nuisance, and they didn't want to keep doing it - plus it took some time to appoint a new PM and they had to keep sending out the letters.

    Then they realised that customers wouldn't know or care who the PM was anyway, all they needed was a name that looked trustworthy. They came up with "Alistair Bond". James Bond would have been a bit TOO obvious...

    Any letter addressed to Alistair Bond would be sent to Customer Care, who would reply to it using that name, so it worked. At least until that whole division got closed down, but that wasn't Alistair's fault.

  • (cs) in reply to Rob
    Rob:
    TRWTF is nobody realized that IKEA hot dog sign is intended to be funny.

    I was in IKEA this morning and didn't see that disclaimer. But they do rip us off on this side of the Pacific: $1 AUD for a hot dog. And it still wasn't very nice, with stale bread and tough sausage.

  • Carl T (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Rob:
    TRWTF is nobody realized that IKEA hot dog sign is intended to be funny.
    The funny part is "all beef", as if anyone would believe that there's even 50% beef in that thing. Mostly ground-up connective tissue mixed with blood protein and vegetable fibre, methinks.
  • Sune Mølgaard (unregistered)

    Thank you for opting not to ship internationally. While I might be tempted to sell my soul for one of your mugs (since I don't believe in the former), I'd opt not to sell it to M$ ;-)

  • CM (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    Matt Thompson was poking around here and found the best acronym ever: MSBPDHRBG.
    I can't figure out how to pronounce that. Misbapodherbug?
    Bless you.
  • Don L (unregistered) in reply to David Wright

    I used to work for a company who'd employed a fictive person; let's call him "Arthur Smith". Whenever sales people called in, the person they'd called would say "Ah, you must speak to Arthur who's responsible for that but he's not in right now; he's in Paris. Send him a mail." Then they kept a calendar for Arthur saying e.g. "Week 39 in Paris, week 40 holiday, week 41 sick" etc. to keep answers consistent. In the end, the sales people just gave up.

  • (cs) in reply to Carl T
    Carl T:
    The funny part is "all beef", as if anyone would believe that there's even 50% beef in that thing. Mostly ground-up connective tissue mixed with blood protein and vegetable fibre, methinks.
    Well, maybe not “beef” as you or I understand it, but “100% of animal-derived content came from cows” isn't quite as catchy. Also wouldn't fit so well on the sign.
  • NAD (National Dyslexic's Association) (unregistered)

    Dyslexic Dice: Ruining Children's education since 1992....

    Yatch....has a ring to it...

  • hs (unregistered) in reply to Yazeran
    Yazeran:
    Well I guess the I-pod scale just is a subtle reminder to all us geeks that civilisation has reached a dead end.....

    Yours Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

    take your space glass with....

  • Billy G (unregistered)

    I'm srprised noone has mentioned this yet...the real wtf is a company that may be buying mugs to try to encouraqge geeks back to their side....

  • Billy G (unregistered) in reply to Power Troll

    [quote user="Power Troll"]Anyone actually sign up for a Windows Live account to get the mug?

    Apparently M$'s algorithms aren't very smart. <pic removed> [quote] Uhm...because a lot of spam mimics MS, it stands to reason that most anti-spam (even their own) can't recognise their email amongst the spam...

    I assume the use Bayesian filtering (or something similar) which means if a lot of mail is very similar to MS stuff, the heuristics decide that it is SPAM...

    Of course, one would think they'd have a whitelist on their own addresses, but maybe they don;t care, or maybe they think it over complicates things...

  • ZS (unregistered) in reply to David Wright
    David Wright:
    I doubt there IS a Shirley; it's just a made up name to look more friendly than Service@wherever.

    Where I used to work, the Product Manager's name was on all the standard letters sent out by Customer Care. When he left, they had to change them all for a new name. All under Configuration Control, so it was a bit of a nuisance, and they didn't want to keep doing it - plus it took some time to appoint a new PM and they had to keep sending out the letters.

    Then they realised that customers wouldn't know or care who the PM was anyway, all they needed was a name that looked trustworthy. They came up with "Alistair Bond". James Bond would have been a bit TOO obvious...

    Any letter addressed to Alistair Bond would be sent to Customer Care, who would reply to it using that name, so it worked. At least until that whole division got closed down, but that wasn't Alistair's fault.

    Are you sure?

  • Janis (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    Rob:
    TRWTF is nobody realized that IKEA hot dog sign is intended to be funny.

    I was in IKEA this morning and didn't see that disclaimer. But they do rip us off on this side of the Pacific: $1 AUD for a hot dog. And it still wasn't very nice, with stale bread and tough sausage.

    I believe the Adelaide IKEA has the disclaimer...has always amused me...

  • Martin D (unregistered)

    US-only promotion? You can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

  • (cs) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Carl T:
    The funny part is "all beef", as if anyone would believe that there's even 50% beef in that thing. Mostly ground-up connective tissue mixed with blood protein and vegetable fibre, methinks.
    Well, maybe not “beef” as you or I understand it, but “100% of animal-derived content came from cows” isn't quite as catchy. Also wouldn't fit so well on the sign.
    You do realize, I hope, that leather qualifies as a "beef by-product"?
  • Cor Blimey, Geezer, mate (unregistered)

    The blocks are old (even the pic in this link is pretty much identical): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177129/Bottom-class-Morrisons-stocks-spelling-blocks-say-U-Umberlla.html Hey, akismet, this ain't spam

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    boog:
    Malenfant:
    bertram:
    eVil:
    Does Nagesh...
    You know, I'm starting to wonder if he's in some way associated with the site...
    As it's an unregistered Nagesh, what leads you to believe it is always the same person?
    I can't speak for bertram, but what leads me to believe it's always the same person is purely personal preference. In fact, I prefer to believe that all unregistered trolls on this site are actually just one sad little pinhead sitting in his parents' basement entertaining himself with sockpuppets. And why shouldn't I? It's hilarious and makes me feel superior.

    What? Most of you are thinking it too.

    One small difference though: I know I'm superior.

    What? My mom says I'm cool...

    I think it's just that she's hinting you need to wear a nice warm woolly undervest and make sure you put that nice scarf round your neck that Auntie Edna kindly knitted you for Christmas that you've still never worn.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Pyrexkidd
    Pyrexkidd:
    GalacticCowboy:
    * You think that gear diagram is bad, there was a diagram released by the US government a while back (might have even been featured on this site?) with three fully interlocked gears that were supposed to represent different branches or groups within government. (i.e. each gear meshed with both of the others.) The winner? Gears in this configuration would be completely locked and incapable of movement.

    Thus representing the permanently inhibited movement of the U.S Government. I fail to see the WTF.

    Worth pointing out that one of the coins currently legal tender in the UK has a design on the reverse featuring 17 gearwheels arranged in a ring.

  • ted (unregistered) in reply to ted
    ted:
    ted:
    C-Octothorpe:
    det:
    A ted comment? Really? That's even less funny than a Nagesh comment.

    I sense another meme coming on...

    Dude, what the fuck is your problem? I'm so tired of this bullshit meme thing. Every time someone fucking says something repeatedly, out trots the "meme" comment. Memes were funny the first time I read them, your bullshit attempt is just lame and sad.

    Stop posting as me posting as ted, retard.

    Dude, what the fuck is your problem? I'm so tired of this bullshit retard thing thing. Every time someone fucking says something repeatedly, out trots the "retard" comment. Retards were funny the first time I read them, your bullshit attempt is just lame and sad.

  • (cs)
    "So that's what raw e-books look like," writes David, "I thought they'd be more, I dunno, silicon?"
    Raw e-books are those without an iPad/iPhone dock.
  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to ted
    ted:
    ted:
    ted:
    C-Octothorpe:
    det:
    A ted comment? Really? That's even less funny than a Nagesh comment.

    I sense another meme coming on...

    Dude, what the fuck is your problem? I'm so tired of this bullshit meme thing. Every time someone fucking says something repeatedly, out trots the "meme" comment. Memes were funny the first time I read them, your bullshit attempt is just lame and sad.

    Stop posting as me posting as ted, retard.

    Dude, what the fuck is your problem? I'm so tired of this bullshit retard thing thing. Every time someone fucking says something repeatedly, out trots the "retard" comment. Retards were funny the first time I read them, your bullshit attempt is just lame and sad.

    Oh shut up, retard.

  • MattWPBS (unregistered)

    I like to think that the gear cog diagram is deliberate, and a subtle way for the presenter to go "this is never going to work".

  • swim (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    dkf:
    Carl T:
    The funny part is "all beef", as if anyone would believe that there's even 50% beef in that thing. Mostly ground-up connective tissue mixed with blood protein and vegetable fibre, methinks.
    Well, maybe not “beef” as you or I understand it, but “100% of animal-derived content came from cows” isn't quite as catchy. Also wouldn't fit so well on the sign.
    You do realize, I hope, that leather qualifies as a "beef by-product"?

    In that case, I'm going to start referring to the jacket I wore to work today as a "Beef Jacket".

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to swim
    swim:
    da Doctah:
    dkf:
    Carl T:
    The funny part is "all beef", as if anyone would believe that there's even 50% beef in that thing. Mostly ground-up connective tissue mixed with blood protein and vegetable fibre, methinks.
    Well, maybe not “beef” as you or I understand it, but “100% of animal-derived content came from cows” isn't quite as catchy. Also wouldn't fit so well on the sign.
    You do realize, I hope, that leather qualifies as a "beef by-product"?

    In that case, I'm going to start referring to the jacket I wore to work today as a "Beef Jacket".

    Go the whole, er, hog - call them your beef curtains.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    One small difference though: I *know* I'm superior.

    What? My mom says I'm cool...

    I saw a post on a college web site once by a professor explaining that there would be no exceptions to rules about due dates for assignments, etc. The title of the article was, "Your mother was wrong. You're not special."

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to David Wright
    David Wright:
    I doubt there IS a Shirley; it's just a made up name to look more friendly than Service@wherever.

    Where I used to work, the Product Manager's name was on all the standard letters sent out by Customer Care. When he left, they had to change them all for a new name. All under Configuration Control, so it was a bit of a nuisance, and they didn't want to keep doing it - plus it took some time to appoint a new PM and they had to keep sending out the letters.

    Then they realised that customers wouldn't know or care who the PM was anyway, all they needed was a name that looked trustworthy. They came up with "Alistair Bond". James Bond would have been a bit TOO obvious...

    Any letter addressed to Alistair Bond would be sent to Customer Care, who would reply to it using that name, so it worked. At least until that whole division got closed down, but that wasn't Alistair's fault.

    When I grew up, my imaginary friend got a job in Customer Care ...

  • Slapout (unregistered)

    I signed up for Windows Azure and all I got was this WTF mug!

  • Slapout (unregistered)
    • not actual size **

    (in much smaller print): ** not actual beef

  • (cs) in reply to Billy G
    Billy G:
    I'm srprised noone has mentioned this yet...the real wtf is a company that may be buying mugs to try to encouraqge geeks back to their side....
    As long as my shiny new dWTF mug doesn't come with a permanent "Provided by Microsoft" logo, it's OK by my rules

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